Some nights
while the wife is out working her shift on my days off (of course), I sometimes
find myself reading up on something I heard about or an idea I had earlier that
day. This one day in particular left me reading about car magazine writers. Sounds
like fun! I read how some writers
stumble across these jobs, with no journalistic qualifications, get to fly
halfway around the globe (free) to drive and review the latest and greatest car
on the market. Right. But being a car nut myself tinkering on my cars, and I'm
always on multiple car forums, blogs like Speedhunters, I thought I'd give it a
go and see what happens.
The first
website looking for writers I came across were into exotics. Now having only
seen a few in museums and never actually sat in any I decided the best thing to
do was to make fun of them and their poorly designed website. Naturally it
promoted a response but not what I thought. They were favorable. So favorably
that they were asking for more of my work, schools I went too, journalistic
qualifications, etc., etc. Now I have about as much qualifications as writer as
I do performing neurosurgery on pygmy monkeys. But fortunately for the monkeys,
I have had some published poetry in the past, so the only brain surgery I'll be
doing is on my own mind.
Sadly my
inexperience of exotics has curbed my writing career from their web page to
this uncharted territory of blogging. It’s too early to say if this a step up
or down in the evolution of my writing. Little to me is known about this world
and what lies within it. I do know that from the 5 minutes of browsing the
interwebs of other bloggers, I realized that they have a nice theme to their
blogs - they are about as exciting as shoving sand in my eyes and using rubbing
alcohol to wash it out. Sadly this is not what I have expected, but this does
provide me with the creative outlet I need to share my thoughts, feelings,
ideas, frustrations, things I should say out loud, things I should not say out
loud, viewpoints or anything I may or may not be held accountable for.
Rather
limiting myself to one topic, I will be posting anything and everything I feel
I need to share. Although I do love certain subjects more than others (cars for
example) but I'm always working on poetry, songs, and shit I find funny or
interesting. I will try to post at least one thing a week and go from there.
Lookout world, Dano is here...
I look forward to reading. I already know how your mind works and I think this sets up well as a fun weekly item for people with varying interests to follow. Plus I can always use one more item to check on Monday mornings :) Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks Bryan! I'm setting this up more for creative ideas that I am able to share it with family and friends - once I get the copyright stuff figured out. I'm gonna try to keep it ad free as my goal here is not to make money. I've been developing stories about my past car experiences (seeing how I have a few to choose from), and so far have turned out pretty good so far, so for the first month or so I'll try to produce one each week. Now knowing that you, like most people with regular shifts, catch up Monday mornings, so I'll shoot for having them finished by Sunday night as a goal.
ReplyDeleteDude it's Sunday! Waiting..... LoL
ReplyDeletelol I know I know - almost finished - will post before I head to bed!
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